Ray Charles – I Can’t Stop Loving You

“I Can’t Stop Loving You” – Single by Ray Charles
from the album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
B-side “Born to Lose”
Released April 1962
Recorded February 15, 1962
Label ABC-Paramount
Songwriter Don Gibson
Producer Sid Feller
Charted No.1 in US; No.1 in UK; No.1 in Australia; No.1 on Sweden

Video from THE DICK CAVETT SHOW. September 18, 1972. The Raelettes are: Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, Dorothy Berry, & Estella Yarbrough.

“I Can’t Stop Loving You” is a popular song written and composed by the country musician Don Gibson from his 1958 album Oh Lonesome Me, who first recorded it on December 3, 1957, for RCA Victor Records. It was released in 1958 as the B-side of “Oh Lonesome Me”, becoming a double-sided country hit single.

The song was covered by Ray Charles in 1962, featured on Charles’ album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, and released as a single. Charles’ version reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962, for five weeks.

The Ray Charles version is noted for his saying the words before the last five lines of the song on the final chorus: “Sing the song, children”. Choral backing was provided by The Randy Van Horne Singers. It was ranked No. 164 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and No. 49 on CMT’s “100 Greatest Songs in Country Music”.

In 1963 at the 5th Annual Grammy Awards, the Ray Charles version of the song won him the Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording.